Upper Darby man pleads guilty to raping 15-year-old

MEDIA COURTHOUSE -- A 32-year-old Upper Darby man pleaded guilty last week to charges of rape, corruption of minors an indecent assault for a Feb. 18, 2012 attack on a 15-yer-old girl.

At a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge Christopher Mattox in August, the victim testified that she was half asleep on a basement couch at about 6 a.m. when Marlon Vick began touching her breasts.

Ignoring her pleas to stop, Vick pulled her shorts down and commenced oral sex and rape, the girl said.

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"I kept telling him to get off me," said the victim. "I tried to scream but he put his hand over my mouth. I was trying to fight him off. He kept pushing me down."

Under the plea agreement worked out between Kim and defense counsel Denise McCrae, Vick could face 60 to 240 months in a state correctional facility and 84 months of consecutive sexual offender probation. The plea triggered a lifetime Megan's Law registration as a sexual offender.

Judge James Nilon has set sentencing for April 8, pending a psychosexual evaluation and state Sexual Offenders Assessment Board evaluation to determine if Vick is a sexually violent predator.